Day 917

Did a lot of computing throughout the day, battered the menus program into shape. I ought to start finding a program to use it with really!

Worked out that I'm getting 147 rollies a week out of 50g baccy. Changed my smoking intervals to save 1 more a day.

The ABC thing has put me right off working again. I always felt I'd avoided thinking about careers and it's caught up with me Though hat's not so much the problem now, I'd take any job they'd have me for, but it shows that even at age 14 I knew there were going to be problems. Ten years later I'm drifting aimlessly about, getting nowhere - But hey. A lot of unemployed people are far worse off than me.

Now the 'Loyalists' have called a ceasefire to match the IRA's. Now they can really try to sort something out in N. Ireland.

Tony has bridged the gender gap. He is 9 percentage points further ahead with women than he was before the conference, women being traditionally Labour's problem. Strangely, given what they'd do for us. And these are the new adjusted polls, where Labour are 17 points ahead rather than 38 (and Neil Kinnock has been Prime Minister for 2½ years). They say the next election will be October 1996. 2½ years down, 2 to go. Roll on Labour victory! We're Harold Wilson's Labour Party Band...